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Sounds that make you cringe

  • 18-11-2016 10:55am
    #1
    team_actimel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 785 ✭✭✭


    Saccular acoustic sensitivity is a measurement of the ear's affectability to sound.
    Many of us have negative physical and mental stimulation to certain sounds.

    I suffer from it mainly when people are scraping ceramic bowls/plates which gives me goosebumps and chills.

    Here are a list of some of 'the most horrible sounds' conducted in an online study.

    Polystyrene
    Vomiting
    Microphone feedback
    Multiple babies crying
    Scrape of train wheels
    Soap opera argument
    Coughing
    Tasmanian devil :cool:
    Nails on a chalkboard
    Apple munch
    Electrical throb

    Does anyone else suffer from certain noises that give you mental or physical effects?


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  • #2
    nullzero
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,428 ✭✭✭✭nullzero
    °°°°°


    Rihanna.

    Glazers Out!



  • #3
    tomwaterford
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,768 ✭✭✭✭tomwaterford


    I imagine hearing your parents riding is gonna feature pretty highly here for some folks


  • #4
    LordSutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,078 ✭✭✭✭LordSutch


    Noisy eaters, people eating with their mouths open whilst smacking their lips!
    Scraping out a saucepan with a metal spoon (instead of a wooden spoon).
    Nails being dragged down a blackboard. People getting sick (vomiting) . .


  • #5
    hoodini89
    Closed Accounts Posts: 67 ✭✭hoodini89


    I get shivers from the feel of polystyrene alright. Oh, and the fights they do be having on EastEnders gives me negative effects.


  • #6
    Barry Badrinath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,460 ✭✭✭Barry Badrinath


    Cats looking for a ride.

    At night in the dark, it sounds like a zombie baby in the back garden looking for revenge.


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  • #7
    kopite386
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,929 ✭✭✭kopite386


    Nails down a blackboard or chalk being dragged down it as well makes me shiver even at that thought of it


  • #8
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    I never quite understood why but the sound of people pouring liquids into a cup or glass irks me. Waves of annoyance and frustration and directionless anger. Specifically the noise of tea or coffee from a pot into a mug.

    Never understood why. I just notice it - ignore it - and move on. But always wondered why it gets on my wick so deeply. I just assume I have some association built up with it that triggers something in me :)


  • #9
    Airyfairy12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,405 ✭✭✭Airyfairy12


    People eating/chewing, repetitive noises, snoring, screaming kids and babies, dogs barking, Dublin accents - all of them, English accents, Newry/Monaghan accents, knifes and forks scraping plates, alarm clocks, house alarms, motorbikes, car horns, sirens, people that talk really loud, people getting sick, music played in Tesco, lip smacking, people kissing...I could go on all day so ill stop now.

    Edit ^^ pouring liquid *shivers.


  • #10
    qo2cj1dsne8y4k
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,646 ✭✭✭✭qo2cj1dsne8y4k


    People eating
    Slurping
    Chomping on an apple
    People smacking their lips as they eat
    The sound of the word moist
    People who won't blow their nose and are just snuffly
    Shrill screams
    Things pouring into cups or glasses
    Sudden unexpected noises make me want to knock someone out I hate it


  • #11
    elefant
    Registered Users Posts: 4,672 ✭✭✭elefant


    People cracking bones in their fingers/necks.


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  • #12
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,812 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    Fork scraping on a plate:mad:


  • #13
    jiltloop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,205 ✭✭✭jiltloop


    The really high pitched hum that comes from old CRT TVs. You normally just notice it when it's turned on and no sounds has come out yet or when it's muted.

    Thankfully there's not too many of them around any more.


  • #14
    Olishi4
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,469 ✭✭✭Olishi4


    team_actimel wrote: »
    Apple munch

    Does anyone else suffer from certain noises that give you mental or physical effects?

    can't imagine eating an apple without the crunch!

    The alarm clock in the morning.


  • #15
    Barry Badrinath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,460 ✭✭✭Barry Badrinath


    The sound of people talking absolute shyte.


  • #16
    Colser
    Registered Users Posts: 5,572 ✭✭✭Colser


    Air con in the car really annoys me..I turn it down as sit as soon possible.People who leave the window slightly down in the car all the time and that continuous sound it makes..


  • #17
    kfallon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    The sound of a snail's shell cracking when you step on it accidentally while walking in the dark at night :(


  • #18
    evolving_doors
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,812 ✭✭✭✭evolving_doors


    brushing teeth


  • #19
    osarusan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,693 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    Cork accent.


  • #20
    gramar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,045 ✭✭✭✭gramar


    LexieOnRale wrote: »
    Sudden unexpected noises make me want to knock someone out I hate it

    Oh yes...I hate those. A wan here in the office dropped a hole puncher on the floor yesterday. My instinctive impulse was to punch her in the hole...thankfully I managed to curb my urges.


  • #21
    s4uv3
    Registered Users Posts: 952 ✭✭✭s4uv3


    My phone ringing. Especially when I'm in bed on a day off :mad:


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  • #22
    razorblunt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    Hard to explain the first one ... cleaning furniture with a cloth to get a stain out.

    Scraping ice in a freezer (I'm ok with clearing the windscreen).


  • #23
    Sklarker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 242 ✭✭Sklarker


    sbsquarepants wrote:
    Fork scraping on a plate

    This is the only sound I hate but it drives me demented for some reason


  • #24
    Turtyturd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,397 ✭✭✭✭Turtyturd


    Teeth grinding together.


  • #25
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,641 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    If there is one thing that gets me its the sound of a performer, band, busker or gig where someone is out of tune, be it vocals or guitar it doesn't sit well with me. Also I remember a scene from a film where there was this fight in a shipyard and one fellah loses his balance and tries to cling on to the side of a ship but he can't get a grip and his nails scrape the side of the ship as he falls down (I suppose like nails on a blackboard.) Also travelling on a ferry, I can never sleep as there is always a constant hum or vibration through the whole vessel, much like if you are living in a place near lots of heavy duty fans or air conditioning systems.

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



  • #26
    scouttio
    Registered Users Posts: 386 ✭✭scouttio


    If someone stands near me while licking the lid of a yogurt, I will instantly put them on my hate list


  • #27
    Shlippery
    Registered Users Posts: 2,261 ✭✭✭Shlippery


    The noise/sensation of scratching those cards where the picture changes when you look at them from oa different angle. You know the ones. They've a weird scratchy texture.

    It's ****ing awful.

    Oh and the noise that certain rain jackets make of a certain material..same with tracksuit bottoms. Its' only one type of material ..but it bothers me greatly!!


  • #28
    mahoganygas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,488 ✭✭✭mahoganygas


    The sound of your phone's alarm clock when somebody uses it as a ring tone.


  • #29
    Barry Badrinath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,460 ✭✭✭Barry Badrinath


    Oh, the sound of someone running their hand along a latex balloon.

    Fcuk that


  • #30
    Sam Kade
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,313 ✭✭✭✭Sam Kade


    D4 accent


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  • #31
    schizo1014
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 307 ✭✭schizo1014


    I'd imagine people spitting would be up there for some people, not us country folk.


  • #32
    MRnotlob606
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,642 ✭✭✭MRnotlob606


    Brian Dobsons sex squeal


  • #33
    Keedowah
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 979 ✭✭✭Keedowah


    People sighing... especially when you know its looking for attention!


  • #34
    Barry Badrinath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,460 ✭✭✭Barry Badrinath


    MRnotlob606 wrote: »
    Brian Dobsons sex squeal

    Stop ridin' him then.


  • #35
    dd972
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭dd972


    Suitcase wheels on a pavement, especially if the person is walking in front of me at the same pace, turns me homicidal.


  • #36
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,641 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    dd972 wrote: »
    Suitcase wheels on a pavement, especially if the person is walking in front of me at the same pace, turns me homicidal.

    I get ya, I never understood why people take wheelie cases to music festivals but the sound of them on these man made walkways with a hangover was fcuking awful.

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



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  • #37
    Standard Toaster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,272 ✭✭✭✭Standard Toaster


    When you burn the bollocks out of your breakfast and the smoke alarm won't stop wailing.


  • #38
    Barry Badrinath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,460 ✭✭✭Barry Badrinath


    Standard Toaster wrote: »
    When you burn the bollocks out of your breakfast and the smoke alarm won't stop wailing.

    Better upgrade that Standard Toaster to a good one.


  • #39
    team_actimel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 785 ✭✭✭team_actimel


    People slurping and crunching the bejaysus out of their bowl of cereal. Crime usually committed by a family member that makes you want to throttle them.


  • #40
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,641 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    team_actimel wrote: »
    People slurping and crunching the bejaysus out of their bowl of cereal. Crime usually committed by a family member that makes you want to throttle them.

    What sort of sound is that?

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



  • #41
    Potential Underachiever
    Registered Users Posts: 4,989 ✭✭✭Potential Underachiever


    The noise of someone using a yard brush makes my skin crawl

    The noise of my GF eating crunchy stuff really irritates me, it's like she's eating gravel.

    The noise of dogs barking that live nearby infuriates me, it's like a yelp/cry/bark all in one.


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  • #42
    Summer wind
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,285 ✭✭✭Summer wind


    Anyone brushing a card board box with their hand.


  • #43
    Sam Kade
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,313 ✭✭✭✭Sam Kade


    dd972 wrote: »
    Suitcase wheels on a pavement, especially if the person is walking in front of me at the same pace, turns me homicidal.

    Especially at Dublin airport where they have that plastic flooring with the bumps, you'd feel like thumping one of them :mad:


  • #44
    y0ssar1an22
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,240 ✭✭✭✭y0ssar1an22


    sounds i cant stand, make my skin crawl

    1. sound of people handling/breaking polystyrene
    2. markers squeaking on a chalk white board

    theres probably a few others, but those 2 spring to my as being particularly awful.


  • #45
    Milly33
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,657 ✭✭✭Milly33


    Licking Ick makes me just go blahhh... Like when a dog is licking itself clean,.. Drives me nuts hard to describe now, and snots noises..Yuck yuck yuck


  • #46
    everlast75
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,126 ✭✭✭✭everlast75


    the sound of people walking in flip flops. For some reason, it depresses me.

    when someone clears their throat really REALLY loudly (and its often repeated!)


  • #47
    team_actimel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 785 ✭✭✭team_actimel


    bodhrandude wrote: »
    What sort of sound is that?

    The subsequent blood-boiling sound having heard said cereal slurp/crunch.


  • #48
    iLikeWaffles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,325 ✭✭✭iLikeWaffles


    razorblunt wrote: »

    Scraping ice in a freezer (I'm ok with clearing the windscreen).

    Scraping ice out of the freezer, I even shivered when I read it!

    The noise of most YouTuber's!


  • #49
    team_actimel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 785 ✭✭✭team_actimel


    everlast75 wrote: »
    the sound of people walking in flip flops. For some reason, it depresses me.

    when someone clears their throat really REALLY loudly (and its often repeated!)

    One positive for summer being over is not hearing colleagues flip-flopping around the office. It's an irritating sound alright.

    I was sitting on a flight from New York to Dublin once in front of an aul fella constantly clearing his throat very loudly. Made my flight very unpleasant.


  • #50
    uch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,012 ✭✭✭uch


    The sound of Scutter hitting the pot in one big wallop on a monday morning

    21/25



  • #51
    henryporter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,089 ✭✭✭henryporter


    The sound of people cutting their nails with clippers.

    The sound of rodents scrapping behind walls or ceilings.


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